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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 50: Cute fishmonger
From: mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Sat Dec 11 09:02:50 2004

Nathan, thanks for sharing those. I too find fish markets very
photogenic. Not sure why, but I do.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: 11 December 2004 16:57
To: LEG; Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 50: Cute fishmonger


Most Dutch people do their daily shopping the same way as people 
elsewhere in the Western world, in supermarkets. But they are still 
quite attached to the old ways, and so every town has a weekly outdoor 
food market. The town where I live, Almere, conveniently has its market 
on Saturdays. I often go there, not just to buy fresh vegetables, cheese

and bread, but of course also to look around with my camera. I 
especially like the fish stand. This time I was rewarded with a couple 
of cute girls. First, the one looking at the fish in amazement (as if 
she is thinking: is this where the fish sticks come from?):
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50.jpg

The second cute girl is the fishmonger--not exactly what one expects in 
that business. In these three shots she is picking a fish for a 
customer, dumping it on the scale, and reading the price:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50alt1.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50alt2.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50alt3.jpg

This Chinese guy has been there the last three Saturdays, I think he is 
buying for one of the town's Chinese restaurants:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50alt4.jpg

The final alternate is a response to the call (I forgot who made the 
initial suggestion) for images showing how our neighbourhoods look at 
this time of year. This is the main shopping street of Almere, 
Stationstraat: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_50alt5.jpg
(I don't state technical data in these postings, they are under the 
table of thumbnails on  the page, but...this picture was taken at ISO 
800 with the 20D; I know this is just a JPEG on the web, so you have to 
take my word for it when I say that this is far better quality than any 
night picture I have shot with film)

The complete PAW index is at:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2004.html
and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated.

Nathan
-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com
Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com



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